Where it becomes the eastern boundary of the Yosemite National Park it breaks into climaxes of magnificence.
Volcanic upbuildings are often spasmodic and slow, a series of impulses separated by centuries of quiescence, but their climaxes often are sudden and excessively violent.
Every aria, though its tone is serious and more often melancholy, has its own characteristics, and the climaxes are worked up with great power.
That performance, in 1845, represents one of theclimaxes of ballet history, including as it probably did the greatest sum total of choreographic ability that ever had been brought together.
Here was eloquence of a different sort from the sonorous perorations of Webster or the polished climaxes of Everett.
The climaxes are stirring and coherent, and in many places the music really attains to a considerable amount of dramatic power, contrasted by passages of infinitely expressive tenderness.
Some powerful though smallclimaxes may be noticed, and then a new theme is heard softly, con tenerezza, pensieroso, over a florid accompaniment.
There are few climaxes for her, the part being a passive one, the action being buried in the text.
Brother and sister face each other, and their parting at the end of the act is another of those strangely affecting climaxes Ibsen builds so well.
Tausig had such a technic; yet surely Tausig had not the brazen, thunderous climaxes of this broad-shouldered young man!
Here was one of those episodes on which Liszt doted, a place where he could unloose all his orchestral technique, piling his climaxes furiously high.
But what a well-balanced touch, what a broad, euphonious tone, what care in building climaxesor shading his tone to mellifluous whisper!
The preliminary climaxes must be sufficiently few, sufficiently subordinate and sufficiently distant not to detract from the force of the chief climax.
Such real if minor climaxes are entirely different from the several stages of the story illustrated in Chapter IX by James' "The Lesson of the Master.
The plot of a certain type of story requires subordinate and preliminary climaxes to relieve the tension or advance the action, as already stated.
They will range from those climaxes of the constructive or intuitive imagination,[548] which are of the whole man, to passionate or morbid delusions representing but a partial and passing phase of the subject's personality.
Yet he had imagination, and his poem is great in the climaxes of the story.
Somehow, not only the first climaxes of a game but the decisions, the convictions, the reputations of pitchers and fielders evolve around the great hitter.
I foresaw one of those baseballclimaxes that can be felt and seen, but not explained.
The fact that they did add sonority was therefore but a subsidiary issue, and inclimaxes such as the Finale of the Fifth Symphony, their mission was primarily that of lending grandeur and richness to the final scintillating tableau.
And thus, already in the seventeenth century was found a man whose perspicuity in the choice of a modest band of loud-voiced instruments commended itself for some of the mightiest climaxes of Beethoven's immortal works.
The themes are arrayed in a kaleidoscopic sequence of instrumental color rather than being subjected to elaborate thematic treatment, and climaxes are reached by means of dynamic effects instead of by melodic evolution.
His themes are arrayed in a kaleidoscopic sequence of instrumental color rather than being subjected to elaborate thematic treatment, and climaxes are reached by means of dynamic effects instead of by melodic evolution.
There are spring and autumn climaxes throughout (in February and in November); there is no December rise.
We even have to admit that the promptings of the sexual instinct bring an increased body of visitors to the reference library (where there are no novels), for here, also, both the spring and autumnal climaxes are quite distinct.
Here the dramatist gets two fine climaxes where the novelist gained but one.
Continuous Climaxes That Come Like Cloudbursts.
Just what is the suspense created near the beginning of the play and developed throughout from sub-climaxes to a final climax?
I think that oratorio reached its successive climaxes with "The Messiah" and "Elijah.
There are apparent in the sequences of Beethoven's symphonies certain climaxes and certain rests.
There are many splendid scenes and climaxes in the dramas which he wrote for his music, and if he had not been a composer it is possible he would have achieved immortality as a writer of tragedy.
And then, also, in each you must have your lesser climaxes leading masterfully up to the supreme one, and a final quiet one to let gratefully down from the giddy height.
No, be the garden a prince's or a cottager's, the climaxes to be got by superiority of stature, by darkness and breadth of foliage and by splendor of bloom belong at its far end.
Even in the one-house garden I should like to see the climaxes plural to the extent of two; one immediately at the back of the house, the other at the extreme rear of the ground.
In the novel and the drama, both of which may have a complicated plot, several minor climaxesor crises may be found.
For example, in the Merchant of Venice, we have a crisis in both the casket story and the Lorenzo and Jessica episode; but so skillfully are the stories interwoven that the minor climaxes do not lessen our interest in the principal one.
But even more obvious than these commencements are the various climaxes to which they lead up.
Not all climaxes are periods; but nearly all periods are climaxes.
The quiet passages in music, the grays and low tones in the background of the picture, the slow chapters in a story, are as necessary as their opposites; indeed, climaxes are dependent on contrasts in order to be climaxes.
Music that is all rushing climaxes is unbearable; a picture must not be a glare of high lights.
There are no lines in Taylor's poem to grip the heart and send the blood into quicker beat; there are no magnificent climaxes as in Lowell's odes: Virginia gave us this imperial man.
To such robust climaxes as "Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth" he is incapable of rising: he broods, but he is resigned.
He is not an impassioned speaker, he has no grand climaxes that overwhelm an audience, but he does have what his friends call a "restrained eloquence" that leaves the impression that he never quite reaches the limit of his powers.
In the marshalling of facts, in the grouping of arguments, in the use of invective and in the arranging of climaxes he is still the teacher.
Throughout, the harmonies and emotions are remarkably profound and the climaxes wild.
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